The Gateway Experience

Congratulations!! You are embarking on an exciting and rewarding adventure. You are about to discover your ability to perceive, direct, and control your life in ways you never imagined possible. The Hemi-Sync process provides the tools. You supply the action.

Hemi-Sync® is a patented audio technology developed through 40 years of researching the influence of sound on human capabilities. Complex blends of Hemi-Sync sound frequencies facilitate different states of consciousness as you proceed through the Gateway Experi­ence. There are no subliminal messages. You are in control.

Cultivate openness - Approach each exercise without expectations. Open yourself to the same childlike sense of wonder that characterized your first explorations of the physical world. Many people find it helpful to hold relaxation as their only goal, allowing them to notice and value subtle shifts in consciousness. Maintain awareness of your experience without judging and remember that you may perceive in different ways. Pay attention to kinesthetic sensations such as motion, tingling, or pulsing in your physical body. You may "see" lifelike or symbolic images in your mind's eye. Auditory perceptions may manifest as verbal messages, sounds, tones, or even music. Gateway partici­pants often report intuitive perceptions of sudden comprehension, a knowing, a gestalt. There is no right or wrong way to experience these exercises. Allow yourself to appreciate and value the uniqueness of your own perceptions.

Recommendations for use - DO NOT LISTEN while driving. Use any standard quality stereo equipment with headphones in a distraction­free, darkened room where you can remain undisturbed for about 45 minutes. If exterior sounds penetrate, simply let them pass by. Do not use DoIbyTm or other noise-reduction systems.

Wait an hour after eating and use the bathroom before getting comfortable. Avoid alcohol, drugs, or excessive caffeine. Loosen tight clothing; remove shoes and glasses or contact lenses. Experiment with lying down or sitting with your head supported, to find out which you prefer. Adjust your position as needed: scratch an itch, pull up or remove a blanket when metabolic changes produce coolness or warmth.

Lower the volume so the words are barely within your hearing range. Otherwise the voice after a silent period may startle you. You may experience variations in the volume of the Hemi-Sync frequencies. These are intentional; do not readjust the volume.

Many people find that documenting their experiences in a journal is a fascinating method to reinforce learning and review progress. Try it. You may find it helpful to review the "frequently asked questions" (see below) from time to time as you move along.

Work with each exercise in sequence after you feel comfortable with the one(s) proceeding. The right pacing is different for each of us; there are no rules. You may listen to one exercise daily for a week or a month and then work at a slower or faster pace with others. Trust your intuition to know when you are ready to move on.

DISCOVERY

Wave 1

Discovery #1: Orientation

Energy Conversion Box becomes your mental container to hold concerns, distractions, or interferences for the duration of the exercise. See it, feel it, hear it, think it, or simply imagine it. Your container may be simple or ornate, high-tech or antique, a wooden chest, a sphere of light, a vacuum cleaner or a nuclear particle collector.

Imagine concrete symbols to place in the box, such as a wallet for financial worries, a photo or doll representing someone who is on your mind. You can place limiting words like "can't," "shouldn't," or "must" in your container; brick walls to symbolize your defenses; a desk or computer to symbolize work. Experiment. It's a tool for your use. Allow it to change and return to it whenever you wish during an exercise to place inside any new distraction.

Affirmation focuses your intention and attention. You may use the words as spoken in the exercise, modify them to maximize personal relevance and significance, or substitute your own version. Experiment. Make it yours.

Resonant Tuning accelerates the gathering of your vibrational energy while reducing internal dialogue. It helps vitalize and charge your entire system and loosens blockages in natural energy channels. Notice any physical manifestations as you vocalize aloud. The sounds on the exer­cise are only a guide. Set your own rhythm and pace, move up and down the scale, experiment with different vowel sounds.

Breathe only slightly deeper than you normally would and, as you inhale, imagine pulling sparkling, vibrant energy into all parts of your body. Allow it to move gently around in your head as you hold your breath. Try releasing tired, stale energy though the soles of your feet with each exhalation.

The opening and closing of your eyes may at first feel awkward, but try doing it anyway. It's valuable for learning that you can control auto­nomic processes and habitual behavior.

You can return at any time to full waking consciousness by simply breathing normally, opening your eyes, or moving the fingers of your right hand.

Focus 3 is the first signpost along your journey, a Hemi-Sync state where your brain and mind are more coherent, synchronized and balanced.

Return to Full Waking Consciousness (C-1) at the end of this and every exercise is facilitated by a strong audio signal. Despite the temptation to take off your headphones early, listen to this signal until it is withdrawn. The more completely you come "back" from each exercise, the further you can go into the next.

Discovery #2: Introduction to Focus 10

Focus 10 is a level in which your mind remains awake and alert while your body sleeps calmly and comfortably. Follow the instructions, focusing upon and then totally releasing each body part. Your body knows how to do this and to "look with your closed eyes" as you move towards profound relaxation.

One of the paradoxes of "mind awake, body asleep" is the possibility of heightened sensitivity: awareness that the pores of your skin breathe, hearing the swish of blood flow behind your ears, feeling your heart beat. Spontaneous remote sensing is also possible: hearing sounds you would swear you are hearing this time but not the last time, or perceiving faraway, delicate odors. Place all expectations in your box, relax, and simply go with whatever you are experiencing.

Health Affirmation at the end of each exercise helps you balance physical and nonphysical energies. Know that it is working for you without effort on your part.

Discovery #3: Advanced Focus 10

Resonant Energy Balloon (REBAL) is a valuable tool to create a high energy state within and around you. Your REBAL acts as a magnet, attracting influences you desire and shielding you from undesired energy. The more you build your REBAL, the better you sustain higher energy levels. Your REBAL may spontaneously change form, develop a delicate membrane, or become radiant like an intensified aura. Although you may not always perceive your REBAL, play with sensing it through feelings, and/or muscle sensations, and/or visually. Build and rebuild it, storing the energy as in a charged battery.

You can turn it on and use it while in C-1 or in any other state much as you would turn on a light. Use one resonant energy breath as the switch. Inhale vibrant energy and, as you hold it, think of a bright moving circle with the number 10 inside it. Let the circle surround you as you exhale. Experiment with "popping" your REBAL while In a group of people and see if its resonance attracts people who are in harmony with it. Try extending it around your car to note if you negotiate traffic or find parking more easily.

Discovery #4: Release and Recharge

Release and Recharge teaches you a method you can use daily, with or without the tape, to release and convert self-imposed limits resulting from the encrustation of negative emotions. Learned fear can be a useful warning signal, but you no longer need it after you acknowledge the warning. In Focus 10 you can calmly identify and gently release fears, blocks, limits - any interferences to your growth - and replace blocked energy with the pure energy that existed before the limits were imposed.

For purposes of this exercise, "fear" denotes the primary emotional charge connected to the self-imposed limit, and "emotion" denotes related feelings. Trust that your larger self knows what you are ready to uncover; simply follow the instructions and see what comes up for you. If nothing comes, bubble "nothing" away and accept that the process may be working on deeper levels of consciousness.

When you are directed to perceive "the memory, the event," you may connect with a specific occasion or with a memory of your prior, unlimited experience. Always pull in clean energy as a final step.

Here's an example of how energy conversion works: You may perceive a fear of speaking up in groups. Once you have bubbled that away, you perceive the emotion of embarrassment associated with that fear. After releasing both, you reconnect with the joy and gratification you felt as a small child when sharing your experiences with other people. You then reclaim your pleasure in communicating and sharing yourself with others.

Once you are comfortable with the exercise as described, you can experiment with deliberately depositing and then retrieving from your Box a symbol for anything you believe may be interfering with your progress. Follow all the other instructions; the only difference is that you pre­determine what to work with. For example, if you suspect that unconscious fear of separating from the physical body is blocking your progress, place a symbol for this fear (a magic carpet anchored to the ground?) into the Box and follow the instructions to release it.

This exercise is not a quick fix or one-shot panacea. Most self­imposed limits have many layers and will require repeated efforts. But if you truly desire to transcend your limitations, it can greatly facilitate your progress. Take heart from the many people who report it to be among the most valuable exercises of the entire series and the many who use it daily to clear out current frustrations or disappointments before they become encrusted.

Discovery #5: Exploration, Sleep

Exploration, Sleep is based on the concept that sleep is a natural Gateway into other states of consciousness. It may be that, whether or not we remember, our nonphysical consciousness passes through this Gateway every night. The exercise helps you recall this common, natural process in C-1 when you awake.

It is important not to hold expectations. Let them go. Relax. Approach the exercise with a playful sense of curiosity and interest. Just as you opened to the wonders of the physical world when you were very young, be open now in the same way to nonphysical experience. You may choose to add to the Affirmation a statement such as, "I am wholly without expectations, and open to all experience that awaits me." During the exercise, questions such as, "Am I starting to separate?" or "Is this what I'm supposed to be feeling?" interfere with the process. There's plenty of time to assess your experiences after the exercise. Simply go with whatever happens and remember that you may perceive in many different ways. The Hemi-Sync signals fade at the end of the exercise, leaving you in natural sleep.

Discovery #6: Free Flow 10

Free Flow 10 is an opportunity to create your own experience and pursue your own purpose with all the tools learned thus far. Seek only what you really want to know, and be responsible for the knowing. Whatever you receive becomes a part of you. Your beliefs, energy, and attitude influence the intensity and the extent of your free flow exploration. A sense of gratitude enhances communication and union with sources outside your conscious boundaries.

If you have a particular purpose, write it down beforehand in a succinct, straightforward manner, hold it in mind as you begin, but remain open to whatever you experience. Expectations of when and how guidance should come may block the very knowledge you seek. You need not know the way to guidance. Choose only to be guided. You may or may not "see" or "hear." Tingles or twitches and intuitive cues can be equally enlightening. One Gateway experiencer felt nothing but a cramp in the leg. The valuable insight that the object of attention was "cramping her style" came only later.

Use repetitions of this exercise to "play" with a particular tool: your Affirmation, Box, REBAL, etc. Each time you work with the exercise, explore from a fresh perspective. Don't expect your experience to resemble anyone else's. Value your uniqueness. It's all right to re­examine a previous experience, but do so with openness rather than trying to recreate an identical situation.

In summary, enter the free flow with awareness, serenity, openness, and enjoy!

LOOKING AHEAD

Discovery is only the first step of your on-going adventure with personal growth. Just as each Discovery exercise builds upon what you have already learned, the entire Gateway Experience course builds upon itself. As you proceed through the rest of the course, feel free to repeat any earlier exercise when you feel moved to do so. The results are cumulative. Your continuing explorations can catapult you into higher levels of awareness.

Wave II, THRESHOLD, is awaiting you with six sequential exercises, each taking you to new, exciting destinations along your journey of self­development. You'll learn powerful tools for controlling your nonphysical energy, and you'll use the high energy state of Focus 12 to make important differences in your life. Contact your local Dealer, or Interstate Industries, Inc. at 1-800-541-2488 or P.O. Box 505, Lovingston VA 22949.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

1. What should I do if I feel not quite awake and alert after listening to an exercise? There are many effective methods for grounding. You can slowly count from 10 to 1; drink cool water; take a cold shower or splash cold water on your face, neck and wrists. Weather permitting, walk barefoot outdoors, taking deep breaths and releasing excess energy through your feet; place your back against a tree and imagine energy flowing from your head to the branches above and from your feet to the tree's roots and down into the very center of the earth's core.
2. Will Hemi-Sync become a crutch? Absolutely not. The Hemi­Sync exercises are like training wheels on a bicycle: wonderful for practice, but unnecessary as you learn to ride far and free without support.
3. How can Hem!-Sync influence me when I'm not listening to an exercise? After you become proficient, you simply recall the sensations you experienced during what you consider to be your best, most effective response in the desired state. You can trigger the change in consciousness simply by taking a deep breath and remembering those sensations. The more you practice, the easier and more effective this becomes.
4. What if I tend to fall asleep while listening? Your subconscious experiences the exercise even without conscious awareness but, of course, you want to know about it. You may choose to listen to an exercise the first time while sitting in a straight chair without headphones, so you consciously hear all the instructions. Try putting a symbol for sleep in your Box and use pillows to prop yourself in a semi-erect position during the exercise. Continued practice will help you maintain the delicate balance between profound relaxation and sleep. You may be "clicking out." This is different from sleep and leaves you with the sensation when you return to awareness that no time has passed. The memory of your experience will be stored, even though you have no immediate recall. Clicking out is a common experience which diminishes as you progress.
5. What if I'm notable or willing to do Resonant Tuning out loud? It's in your interest to do it anyway. This is an important prepara­tion for perceiving nonphysical energy. Your discomfort about vocalizing will eventually wane.
6. Is it normal to experience buzzing or pressure or an accelerated heartbeat? These phenomena are common with shifts in energy levels and, for some people, indicate a response to the Hemi-Sync effect. As you expand your consciousness you may become more aware of physical sensations. If you experience discomfort, verify that the volume is just barely loud enough for you to understand the words.
7. What do I do if breathing or heartbeat distracts me from the exercise? Be aware and just let it be. It's a normal reaction. Many people find it a comforting link to physical reality that allows them to move more confidently into other states of consciousness. If you continue to feel distracted, put the distraction into your Box. Once you realize that this awareness is not a problem, it will disappear by itself.
8. How do I know if I'm in Focus 10 or 12? Everyone perceives the Focus levels in their own, unique way. There's no absolute guideline. You may discover that Focus 10 or 12 is associated with sensations of tingling or vibration; or a total absence of sensory signals; or particular visual patterns or specific sounds. You may just "know." Observe your own perceptions in a relaxed manner, without expectations, without judging.
9. What should I do if the feeling of heightened energy makes me uncomfortable? Expanding your awareness is the goal, because you need to perceive nonphysical energy before you can direct and use it. Try moving the energy through your body, speed it up or slow it down. Approaching the experience in an experimental mode will ease your discomfort.
10. What if I can't remain on my back without getting restless? No problem. Prop yourself up with pillows, or sit in a comfortable chair, or use ear-buds so you can listen while on your side or stomach.
11. What if I can't visualize my REBAL? Remember that visualizing is only one way of perceiving. Some people "feel" their REBAL by thinking of themselves surrounded by and filled with tingling bursts of energy. Others "hear" the energy's crackle or just know intuitively that their REBAL is in place. Frequent practice in "popping" your REBAL strengthens it even without your awareness.
12. How can I tell if I'm getting what I'm supposed to? "Supposed to" simply isn't relevant in these kinds of explorations. No two individuals have the same experience. Whether cosmic or apparently meaningless, your experiences are valuable. Don't judge. Accept what comes and continue to practice. Thinking about them after the exercise - not during - may lead to insight into their significance. You may enjoy the challenge of determining meaning for what appear to be small changes in perception, like a detective following clues until the larger picture becomes evident. Learn to appreciate the subtleties inherent in consciousness expansion.
13. Is God appearing when I "see" a flood of light during an exercise? The perception of light suggests that your potential for nonphysical awareness is developing, but it is up to you to decide on its meaning. Such light is widely reported by explorers of higher consciousness and people who have had near-death experiences, often accompanied by euphoria, a feeling of oneness with the universe, a sense of overwhelming love. A Buddhist might associate this with Buddha, a Christian with Christ. The Monroe Institute does not endorse any particular interpretation and encourages you to find your own.
14. How many times should I do an exercise before going to the next? This varies from person to person. Become familiar and comfortable with the exercise and allow your intuitive wisdom to know when you are ready to move on. Complete mastery of a particular technique before progressing is not necessary. Feel free to go back again later for further practice.
15. Can my children listen to the Gateway Experience? Depending on the maturity of the child, use your own discretion with children who are 10 or older. We encourage parents to monitor their children's progress and work along with them.
16. Why not combine mind-altering drugs with Hem!-Sync? These exercises train you to take control over your states of consciousness. Drugs often interfere with that control. Also, your interpretations and understanding of your experiences will likely be more accurate without the unpredictable influences of drugs or other mind-altering substances.

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